Cuff-holder



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS A. LOMONT, OF SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA.

C U FF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,299, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed January 16, 1890- Serial No. 337.098- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I AUGUSTUS A. LOMONT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Santa Rosa, in the county of Sonoma, State of California, have invented a new and useful Cufi-Holder, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters referring thereto.

Figure l is a perspective View showing the sleeve broken 0E and partly in section; Fig. 2, a perspective view showing the cuff drawn together ready to be passed into the coat cuif or sleeve; Fig. 3 a perspective, partly in section, showing the same objects shown in Fig. 1, but the cuff held in a smaller sleeve. Fig. 4is a perspective view showing the cuif-holder when free from the cuff. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a holder of greater length to be pivoted on the shank of the cult-button, as shown in Fig. 3 in dotted lines; and Fig. 6, a section through one of the arms.

The following is the construction of myimproved cufi-holder: Iform the spring and arms of any well-known suitable metal generally employed in that class of manufacture and the wings C of such sheet metal as is commonly employed for such construction, the object being to secure an ornamental appearance.

A represents the cufi; B, the cud-button hole; 0, the wings of the cuif-holder; D, the catch-hook; E, the spring-loop; F, the cuffbutton; G, the coat-sleeve, and H the lower edge of the cuff.

The following is the operation of my improved cuff-holder: I press the lower edge of the cuff together, as shown in Fig. 2, and

' insert it in the cuff G to the point required.

' I then allow it to spring out, as shown in Figs.

1 and 3. While in Fig. 1 it is allowed to spring out farther it presses against the coat sleeve or end, and is held from moving out or in. In Fig. 3 it is held still more closely in the smaller sleeve.

In Fig 3 I have shown the holder with longer arms and the loop of the spring elongated to allow it to pass up or down upon the shank of the cuff-button. The loop is sufficiently large for the cuff-button to pass through it when the cuff is being buttoned. From the construction illustrated it will be seen that this expanding device maybe cheaply manufactured from asingle piece of wire. In making the same I take a piece of wire of sufficient length and coil the same midway of its length, so asto form the eye E, after which the branches are carried obliquely in opposite directions and form hooks D in their outer ends. I then solder or otherwise secure to the branches over the backs of the hooks D the plates or shields O in such amanner as to extend beyond the ends of the hooks, so that when the hooks have been inserted in the eyes of the cuff the plates will bear upon cuif attachment described, consisting, essentially, of a single piece of wire coiled midway of its length to form a1 eye E, and its opposite ends having hooks D formed thereon, and the plates 0, secured to the ends above the hooks, substantially-as and for the purpose specified.

AUGUSTUS A. LOh/IONT.

Witnesses: I

D. E. MCKINLAY, NEWTON V. V. SMYTH. 

